Waipoua (spider) explained

Waipoua is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.^[1]

Species

it contains eight species, found only in New Zealand:^[2]

• Waipoua gressitti (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Campbell Is.)
• Waipoua hila Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Waipoua insula Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Waipoua montana Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Waipoua otiana Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Waipoua ponanga Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Waipoua toronui Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
• Waipoua totara (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand

See also

• List of Orsolobidae species

Notes and References

1. Forster. R. R.. Platnick. N. I.. 1985. A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 1–230. 181. Raymond Robert Forster. Norman I. Platnick.
2. Gen. Waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.